Lightly Peated

“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met) saying some friends…

I want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have been anywhere near…

The Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions were affected by…

The man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the world, a titan…

On the 20th July 1957, in Bedford, Harold Macmillan made a speech about rising prosperity and for the first time used the phrase…

I thought I had closed my book on Deanston but what do you know – research is never finished as there is always…

You start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise of the factory…

I never promised that this blog would be in any way current. Never promised to keep my finger on the pulse or…

Outside the Talisker distillery there is a hut that sells good coffee and tray bakes. This morning, having driven up from Fort William…

One of the great post-war writers on architecture and the built environment was Ian Nairn. He was passionate, idiosyncratic, and angry, especially…